Deliberate misinterpretation from the perspective of socio-cognitive pragmatics

By employing the classification criteria and the analytical framework, linguistic data in Friends will be accordingly divided into deliberate misinterpretation of semantic meaning and deliberate misinterpretation of deictic expressions. The classification is also based on the concrete linguistic phenomenon and is made in light of core common ground and emergent common ground proposed in SCA.

Deliberate misinterpretation of semantic meaning

Based on the discussions above, it is sufficient to conclude that the semantic meaning related to the utterance is the concern of core common ground….